This post seems to be using a different meaning of “consequentialism” to what I am familiar with (that of moral philosophy). Subsequently, I’m struggling to follow the narrative from “consequentialism is convergently instrumental” onwards.
Can someone give me some pointers of how I should be interpreting the definition of consequentialism here? If it is just the moral philosophy definition, then I’m getting very confused as to why “judge morality of actions by their consequences” is a useful subgoal for agents to optimize against...
This post seems to be using a different meaning of “consequentialism” to what I am familiar with (that of moral philosophy). Subsequently, I’m struggling to follow the narrative from “consequentialism is convergently instrumental” onwards.
Can someone give me some pointers of how I should be interpreting the definition of consequentialism here? If it is just the moral philosophy definition, then I’m getting very confused as to why “judge morality of actions by their consequences” is a useful subgoal for agents to optimize against...